Kamala Harris Denies That Her Pro-Biden Comments on ‘The View’ Last October “Tipped” The Election Towards Trump

Former Vice President Kamala Harris‘ appearance on The View last fall ahead of the 2024 presidential election made headlines (and campaign ads), but she doesn’t blame it for her loss against President Donald Trump .

Harris returned to the Hot Topics Table on Tuesday to discuss her new book, 107 Days, which hits shelves today. The View makes its own appearance in the book, as she recalls her Oct. 8, 2024 visit to the daytime talk show and the comments she made that were ultimately used against her.

Sunny Hostin, who said she “did realize” that “President Biden was deeply unpopular,” pulled the excerpt from Harris’ new book, in which she writes, “Everything about my appearance on The View was going well, until it wasn’t.”

“And if you recall, you were here 28 days before the election, and I asked you if there was anything you would have done differently than President Biden during the past four years. You said, ‘There is not a thing that comes to mind,’” Hostin told Harris. “You write you had no idea you just pulled the pin on a hand grenade. ‘In the moment I knew.’”

Appearing embarrassed, Hostin admitted that “the Trump campaign weaponized” Harris’ response to her question, and noted that “some, including James Carville and Jake Tapper, pointed that answer as a turning point in [her] candidacy.”

“Do you think that moment tipped the election?” Hostin asked.

Harris immediately replied, “No.”

Joy Behar chimed in with a moment of levity, teasing, “Good, because Sunny doesn’t want to take the blame.”

As the table and the audience burst into laughter, Hostin let out a sigh of relief.

Harris quipped, “There was kind of a confessional happening here? No.”

She then offered her own explanation, telling The View that she believes “one of the biggest deciders of the outcome of that election was that the American people were sick of things being so expensive and wanted that the prices would come down.”

“This is part of why I wrote the book, which is let’s remember in those 107 days what Donald Trump was talking about,” she continued. “First of all, he said his number one priority and the number one thing he would do was bring down cost. That’s what he said, and I believe there are a lot of people who voted for him believing that that’s what he would do.”

Harris urged people to “fast-forward to today,” where she said prices, the cost of food, inflation, and unemployment are all “higher.”

“He lied,” she said, as the studio audience applauded her. “Meanwhile, there are certain promises he did keep, which is he was going to weaponize the Department of Justice and go after his political enemies. That he was going to silence critics against him. That he was going to fulfill whatever his fragile ego needed through the tool of our federal government. That he did whatever he needed to do to enrich himself—literally his pockets, not to mention his ego—he has done.”

She doubled down on the claim that the Trump administration “did what they said they were going to do,” sharing a story she heard about “a Cuban-American whose partner was being deported to Sudan.”

“And that person was a big Trump supporter, and thought, well, why is this happening. He said he was only going to go after criminals,” she said. “He lied.”

Ana Navarro added, “Tell you what. They ain’t singing, ‘Voy a votar por Donald Trump.’ They ain’t singing that anymore in Miami.”

Harris ultimately pointed out “lessons” from the 2024 election that are “bigger than Trump,” saying this “agenda” has been “decades in the making.”

“For which we are now witnessing a high-velocity event that feels like chaos because it’s all happening so rapidly,” she elaborated. “But it is about the implementation, the swift implementation of a plan that has been decades in the making. The Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation. This did not just happen overnight. He has been a useful tool for an agenda that is much broader than the one individual. Let’s be clear about that.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.